Indigenous vs Domestical - What's the difference?
indigenous | domestical |
(chiefly, of living things) Born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.
* 1862 , , "Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree":
Innate, inborn.
* 1852 , , Uncle Tom's Cabin , ch. 18:
* 1883 , , "Stephen Archer" in Stephen Archer and Other Tales :
Domestic.
* Sir Philip Sidney
*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.1:
*:It were a kind of treason to do so in our owne affaires and domesticall matters, wherein of necessity one must resolve and take a side; but for a man that hath neither charge nor expresse commandement to urge him, not to busie or entermedle himselfe therein, I holde it more excusable […].
(archaic) A domestic; a household servant; a member of a household.
As adjectives the difference between indigenous and domestical
is that indigenous is (chiefly|of living things) born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion while domestical is domestic.As a noun domestical is
(archaic) a domestic; a household servant; a member of a household.indigenous
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Adjective
(-)- Not only the Indian, but many indigenous insects, birds, and quadrupeds, welcomed the apple-tree to these shores.
- She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe,—cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race.
- He had all the tricks of a newspaper boy indigenous in him.
Synonyms
* (born or engendered in) aboriginal, autochthonous, nativeDerived terms
* indigenity * indigenously * indigenousness * nonindigenousdomestical
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Alternative forms
*domesticallAdjective
(en adjective)- Our private and domestical matter.